Hi Buddyboy, the leaves are still hanging on the shrub but I think it'll only be a matter of time til they die and drop off. Your comment about gaps around the base me think back a few months ago when it was rocked so hard by severe winds I had to lash the plant to the fence to save it from being uprooted. Maybe vine weevil invaded via that gap and as I have stone chippings around the base I wouldn't have noticed. I will indeed treat the area now and again in the spring and hope this will save it.
Thanks again, this is my first time on the forum and I've found it invaluable already.
We have a red robin hedge that has grown wild for the last 16 years. Having now trimmed it and topped it to 6 feet high, it is now a mature but sprawling thinly leaved hedge. It also seems to have developed some form of disease that manifests itself with damaged bark like a dry and cracked skin. In places this has resulted in the individual section rotting at the base and losing it's roots, leaving gaps in the hedge. All in all a bit of a disaster. Is there anything that can be recommended to bring it back into shape or is the only answer to uproot and start again
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Thanks that is what I am doing. Sadly I now have a magnolia which has done exactly the same as the Photina so that is now getting treatment
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Hi my photonics seems to be bleeding sap from a branch joint. Flies are attracted to this as it is sticky help will this plant survive
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We have a red robin hedge that has grown wild for the last 16 years. Having now trimmed it and topped it to 6 feet high, it is now a mature but sprawling thinly leaved hedge. It also seems to have developed some form of disease that manifests itself with damaged bark like a dry and cracked skin. In places this has resulted in the individual section rotting at the base and losing it's roots, leaving gaps in the hedge. All in all a bit of a disaster. Is there anything that can be recommended to bring it back into shape or is the only answer to uproot and start again